ongoing investigation, and she talked about what she called those eerie echos from the 1998 attacks in nairobi and salaam, those terrorist attacks when susan rice was an assistant secretary for african affair, talking about some of the same warning signs that were missed. so a bad sign for susan rice and her prospective support in the senate, which, of course, would have to confirm any nomination that the president sent up, thomas. >> mike, interesting enough, when susan collins talks about the fact there was more security requests sent for libya and she wants ono why those requests might have been not taken so seriously, nothing comes up about the fact that the republican congress cut the security budget for diplomatic security in 2011 and in 2012. doesn't that seem odd that they don't bring up the fact that they didn't -- >> reporter: i think it also goes back to the bush administration, as well. yeah, this is a point democrats have made over and over again. i think republicans are focusing on not exactly what happened in terms of the budget, of course, but what happened and why susan rice a